Create SCCM Application Phased Deployments

In this post I will show you how to create SCCM Application phased deployments. With every SCCM update, we get to see lot of features getting added. Most of the features make it from technical preview version to current branch version.

One such feature that I am talking about is phased deployments. The phased deployment feature was first introduced in version 1802 as a pre-release feature. However beginning with version 1806, it’s no longer a pre-release feature.

So what do you mean by phased deployments ?. As per Microsoft – Phased deployments automate a coordinated, sequenced rollout of software across multiple collections. In big organizations, the admins are bit worried when there is mass deployment on an application. You never know what could go wrong during deployment.

The idea behind phased deployments is to deploy software to a pilot collection first. Then automatically continue the rollout based on success criteria.

In Configuration Manager, you can create phased deployments for the following objects:

Task sequence

Application (starting in version 1806)

Software update (starting in version 1810)

How to Create SCCM Application Phased Deployments

To create SCCM application phased deployments, I am going to chose an application to deploy it in phases. Before that I have got two devices collections created. Each of these collection has got just 1 computer to perform initial testing.

You may add more computers to the collection. The application that I will be deploying is google chrome. Before creating a phased deployment, distribute the associated content to a distribution point. So my two test collections are Google Chrome – Phase 1 and Google Chrome – Phase 2.

The Phased Deployment Status windows shows the phases, total resources, status and progress. Notice that my Phase 1 application deployment is complete. As per the configuration that we did, the deployment has now moved to second phase.

Hello Prajwal Your blogs helps us a lot to keep our knowledge regularly updated on SCCM with its all new features practical implementation. I am looking forward for a blog to Convert MSI application to MSIX ,which is the new feature introduced in SCCM 1810.